Vancouver Ground-cones

These are Vancouver Ground-cones, a rare and unusual plant. They are parasitic on the roots of Salal and Huckleberry, both very common plants in the Pacific Northwest. We have only seen these plants in one place, however. We were on the Olympic Peninsula last week and visited Anderson Lake State Park to look for them. They were not in flower (there are several pictures of them in flower at the link below), but there were more of them than we had ever seen. Their botanical name is Boschniakia hookeri and they are in the Broomrape family.